The Kaiju Preservation Society: Shortlisted for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel

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Unless they're stopped, the walls between our worlds could fall - and the consequences would be devastating. I thought, at first, that we were going to taken on an interesting deconstruction of monster movie tropes. A large print hardcover edition was issued by Thorndike Press on July 27, 2022, and a trade paperback edition by Tor Books on January 24, 2023. That and the tendency among KPS staff to celebrate with alcohol and feasting (plus ukeleles and staff change-over rituals).

Scalzi also has a great number of female MCs who are super-smart and kick butt, he has transgender characters, non-binary characters, characters of every single skin color, ethnic background and religion. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. I just finished reading John Scalzi's next novel, The Kaiju Preservation Society, which comes out next March. Just like in Jurassic Park, the KPS thinks they have everything under control, but we all know that control is overrated. Navarrians had always been told that these were monsters of legend and myth, not real creatures dangerously close to breaking through Navarre’s wards and attacking civilian populations.Over time nuclear blasts have weakened the barrier between our Earth and another Earth where huge dinosaur sized creatures, Kaiju, roam freely. Throw in some nuclear powered Godzilla-type monsters and you are set for a romp through an alternate Earth. Unless they’re stopped, the walls between our worlds could fall – and the consequences would be devastating. It is created by building a main character who never mentions, thinks, talks about sex, romance, gender, dating, sexual attraction etc. Other readers may have assumed, like I did, that Jamie was a man because of the job they were recruited for.

Scalzi brings his usual irreverent attitude to a mixture of hard science of several sorts, business deceit and political ignorance in the sense of ignoring the obvious; throw in engaging characters, a running gag and you have a thoroughly engaging story. I whipped through it in one evening, and it's the kind of book I might read again sometime, just for the sheer enjoyment of it. In the process, Jamie discovers just how much of an asshole that former boss really is, to the potential detriment of two worlds.John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent. I’m not going to delve too deeply into the plot, suffice to say that an unemployed sci-fi ‘expert’ finds himself transported to a parallel Earth in which humongous flying creatures are considered a species heading for extinction and therefore worthy of treatment that in this Earth are afforded to Giant Pandas. She must survive a daily gauntlet of physical challenges and the deadly attacks of classmates, which she does with the help of secret knowledge handed down by her two older siblings, who'd been students there before her. I believe what makes The Kaiju Presevation Society so accessible is that although the majority of the characters are scientific experts in their given field, Niamh with astrology, Kahurangi with chemistry, and Aparna with biology, having Jamie, a labourer whose main job title is to “lift things'', made those characters have to explain certain theories to him in simple ways.